Peryvo

Peryvo

Journal — Field notes & darkroom

Six entries

Notes from the road.

Short essays on process, places and the people in our pictures — written between rolls.

Short essays on process, places and the people in our pictures — written between rolls.

Small fishing boats at sea with a figure walking the shoreline

Field notes

What a harbour sounds like at 4 a.m.

Notes from six weeks on the quay in Kalk Bay — and why the best pictures came after we stopped trying to take them.

6 min read

Earlier entries

A strip of developed negatives casting striped shadows

Darkroom

Pushing Tri-X to 1600 without losing the shadows

Our development times, the developer we keep coming back to and the mistakes that taught us the most.

8 min read

Framed black-and-white prints laid out on white linen

Process

Why we still send contact sheets

A contact sheet shows the whole roll, not only the winners. Clients tell us it is the part they keep.

4 min read

A woman in glasses looking out of a car window

Process

Photographing families without directing them

How we work at birthdays, reunions and kitchen tables — and the one instruction we always give.

5 min read

A camera hanging from a photographer's shoulder strap

Gear

Two rangefinders and a notebook: our travel kit

Everything that comes with us on a six-week assignment fits into one small bag. Here is what is in it.

5 min read

Sea fog rolling over a long stretch of coastline

Field notes

Fog, patience and the Faroe Islands

Twenty-nine days of weather, four days of light and a short film about the people who measure it.

7 min read

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